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@cited @anni @www STEPHEN VBARNs-or WHITNEY-s POINTQNEW;YORKASSIGNOR ToHIMsELr AND lISAAC e. DUNDORE, @ESAME PLAGE.'

11mm Parent No. 92,563, dem; July 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWING-GAUGE.

The Schedule referred to in lt'hene Lettera P atent and' making partie( the lame.

To all'whom it may concern:

Bc it known that I, STEPHEN V. Bums, of Whit- |1eysPoint,'ih Broome'e'ou'uty, and Staffe of New York, have invented :i new and 'use i'ul Improvement on Apparaltus -for'sidig Buildings; and I do hereby declalre .that the following is a. full, clean-,end exact description of the construction and operation of. the seme, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making n. part of this specicetion, in which 4 Figure, l is s. perspective view. l

Figure 2 represents a'secton of n bnilding in process of laying the elnpboards,'showing twoof the im-v plements in use.

Similar letters of parts in eachiigre. A

.' The nature of my im'entionconsists -of e graduated reference indicate corresponding bnr having two pointed legs, oneo'f which is stationary at the end of scid bar; the other-ismovablc, and may be set teeny required width or lap of siding, and

held in position. byu thunib-screw. When' set, the stationary leg'or point may be driven into the. board,

i and then'ext .piece placed upon it undfnsil'ed,,thereby` obviating the ordinary process of l gauging with compasses, 4and holding it in'position for nailing with telu- B13, `theuppf-,r one of l'which I 'attach to theend of the bor, and secure-it by erivet. In theother, I cut a. slct, and it it to siideupon said har, und secureitinv positiouby a'thunb-screw, D.

N car the upper endotthe bar A, I attach dilemme,` E, of sucient'sizetolslip upon the thumb, for the purpose of more convenientlyholdiug one or more ci" them for use, For ordinary use-'two-oiA them will'be required,as represented by fig. 2.

'Ihc lower piece ofsding or clepboard is rst'nailcd to its place, when-theirequired lap is determined by meesurementof thespace tobe` enclosed, the guug'e is` then set, and the pointed end of the lower leg C placed under the edge of theI precedingboardF, when the point of the leg B is driven iu sufficiently to hold the -next-piece in position for nailing, thereby greatly fgteilitating the operation, and insuring .more accuracy ill lapping Jsind placing the work in position.

'- 4:I am awnretliat the several devices herein shown and describe@ when taken -separately,-are of' themselves not new.

What I claim, is l f Thel combination of the graduated bar A with a stationary pointed leg Bet one extremity, and the movable -pointed leg O and set-screwD at the other extrcmity andwith the' bail E between, all as herein shown and described;

, STEP-BEN V. BABNS. 4illitnesses:4 

